Improvement in detaching horses from carriages



JACOB SUMMERS. Improvement in Detaching Horses Jfrom Carrelages.

JACOB SUMMERS, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND G EO.

YV. HEWITT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENTIN DETACHING HORSES FROM CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,703, dated March 19, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Devices for Detaching Animals from Garriages, invented by J A0013 SUMMERS, of Kokomo, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana.

Figure l is aplan view of the forward bolster, hounds, tongue, single and double-trees of a carriage with my improved detaching devices attached. Fig. 2 is a side view, showing a vertical bolt or pin which passes down by the side of the front bolster, a lever upon which the bolt acts, two short levers operated by the long one, rod, and yet other levers and keepers, which hold the tugs or traces Vupon the pins in the ends of the single-trees. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on line x a: of Fig. l, showing the construction and arrangementof the parts abovealluded to.

Corresponding letters refer to corresponding parts in the several igures.

which are attached to the axleby the usual or anyapproved form of joint. Upon the tongue at the proper point the double-tree D is pivoted, and upon it .are placed the single-trees D D/which, attheir centers, are pivoted to the doubletree, and are provided at their ends with pins of metal, ontowhich to place the tugs or traces. Upon the frontaxle a bolster is placed, upon which an elliptic spring, E, is placed, and upon it` a rbolster to which the body of the vehicle may be secured.

The above-referred to parts i'orm no part of my present invention, except in so far as they are used in combination therewith, and consequently they need not be more particularly described here. y v

In combination with the parts above enumerated, I use the parts which constitute the present improvement, and which are designated by the following words and gures: To the rear side of the bolster F, which rests upon the forward spring of the carriage, there is bolted a socket, l, in which there is cut a slot, 1', as shown in Fig. l. Through the hole in this socket abolt, 2, passes, which is provided with a projecting pin, the diameter of which is such as to allow it to slide freely in the slot l', so that when it becomes necessary to force the bolt down, the pin will pass through the slot and permit the descent of the bolt; and when the bolt is not in use it can be drawn up and turned around in its socket, so that the pin will rest upon the upper surface thereof, and thus prevent it from resting upon the lever 3, the-rear end of which terminates under the bolt 2, it being pivoted toithe tongue or brace at the proper point, so that as its rear end is forced down, its front end will be raised up and carry with it the lower ends of two curved Y and slotted levers, 4 4, which are pivoted to the double-tree D by means of the hinges 4 4', the whole being arranged to turn with the double-tree, a hole being made in the end of the lever to permit the stud, to which the lower ends of the levers are pivoted, to turn with the other parts. Extending from the -V upper ends of levers 4 4 are rods 5 @which extend outward to and connect with short bent levers (i 6, which are pivoted to the single-trees upon their rear sides, their upper ends passing above such trees far enough to permit rods 7 7 to be attached thereto, which rods extend to the inner end of one ofthe singletrees and to the outer end of the other, where they are connected to a plate of metal, or to an arm which has a hole formed in it of suticient diameter to allow it to slide freely upon the pin which is inserted in the end of the single-tree. At some point upon the rods 7 7, between the levers to which. they are attached and the plate upon their ends, there is affixed a bifurcated stud or projection, to which the inner ends of rods 8 8 are attached, these lastnamed rods being extended in the same direction as are those to which they are attached, and having their outer ends supplied witharnis or plates of metal for sliding upon the pins in the single-trees, as above described in the case iof rods 7 7. The rods 8 8 extend further from the ends of the trees than do the rods 7 7, and consequently there is left a space between the plates or arms upon their ends sufliciently broad to admit the end of the tug or trace to work therein. From that portion of the levers 6 6 which islbelow the pivotal -point there extend rods 9 9, which are supplied with arms or plates, and with bifurcated projections, rods l0 1 0 being affixed to them as in thecase'ab'ove*referred to,'the rods l() l() having the arms, as do the rods S 8.

The arrangement of the parts designated by figures or numerals, and their operation is as follows In the event of it becoming desirable to detach the animal or animals from ,a vehicle by disconnecting the tugs or traces from the sin gle-tree or trees in the event ot' their taking fright, or for any other reason, it is only necessary for the occupants' to `reach forward and turn the bolt or pin 2,11ntil the projection upon it will pass down through the slot in the socket, and then press down upon such bolt, which action Will cause the upper ends of the levers 4 4 to be carried further from each other, and thus, through the agency of the rods 5 5, levers 6 6, rods 7 7, 8 8, 9 9, and l0 l0, the plates upon said rods to be forced toward the ends of the pins in the single-trees, which movement will carry the tugs or traces off from said pins, and thusl liberate the animals `from the vehicle.

This mode of detaching the tugs or traces from the trees will be found a very convenient one in ordinary cases, as all of such tugs or traces will be detached at one movement of the lever 3.

-I have described my improvement as principally applicable to two single-trees when used in conjunctionybut it is equally applicable to a single carriage by using only the requisite number of levers and rods.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In combination with the running gear of a vehicle, the bolt or rod 2, lever 3, and the system of levers and rods, constructed and arranged substantially as described, for detachin g the tugs or traces from the single-tree or trees of a vehicle, as set forth.

2. I claim the combination and arrangement of the socket l, bolt 2, levers 3 and 4, rods 5, levers 6, and rods 7, 8, 9, and l0, with the single-trees and the doubletree D land tongue C', their arrangement With reference to each other being such that all of the parts, except the lever 3, the bolt 2, and the tongue C', will, in use, turn upon the pivotal point of the double-tree, substantially as shown.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JACOB SUMMERS.

Witnesses: f

GEORGE WV. IIEWrrT, FRANCIS M. GILns. 

